Just sold a PC and packed the internals like this to stop the graphics card and cooler moving around during shipping.
Basically just a ridiculous amount of paper tightly packed around the graphics card and cooler area so nothing can shift in transit.
Curious to know how other people here package systems when shipping them out.
Would you trust this arriving at your door, or would you do something differently?
This used to be a proper lounge setup, now it’s basically turned into storage + spare parts overflow.
Still has the base though: sofa, wall-mounted TV, lighting, big desk, plus a stack of old consoles and monitors.
Plan is to fully reset it into a clean gaming/work space (2–3 monitor setup), while keeping all the storage functional (including the chaos).
Got a couple before pics, will post the transformation once it’s done. Maybe a full day sprint for 2 days starting from this weekend.
Throw me some cool ideas and suggestions fellas.
If you've sold tech on eBay as a business, you already know this → but the numbers are worth spelling out clearly.
14.6% effective rate for business sellers in electronics once you factor in VAT on fees, the regulatory surcharge, and the fixed order fee. Individual sellers pay nothing since October 2024. The entire burden falls on businesses.
Curious whether others have found ways around this, or just absorbed it into pricing.
Found these old setup pics from early 2021 before I started properly upgrading things.
Single monitor era before discovering dual/triple monitor setups and never being able to go back.
Also peak NZXT H510 period where everyone thought the case looked incredible until we collectively realised the airflow was absolutely terrible.
Pretty sure this setup also had:
Pictures are dark as hell but they’re the only ones I could find.
The data is pretty clear → 13% annual growth, driven by cost of living pressure, hardware upgrade cycles, and a shift in how people buy tech.
Sharing the research and thinking that shapes what we're working on here regularly. Happy to discuss the numbers or where you think the market is heading.